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21. Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 2, 2004 Cloud Gate, attaching steel plates, June 2, 2004 Steel; Trusses; Structural systems; Tents; Construction workers; Ladders; Reflections; Workers make minute adjustments to the cables and rigging that hold the plates in position. Each plate had to be in exact alignment with its neighbor.
22. Crown Fountain, early Jaume Plensa sketchbook drawing, ca. 2000 Crown Fountain, early Jaume Plensa sketchbook drawing, ca. 2000 Sketches; Fountains; An early sketch of Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa. The Crown Foundation agreed to fund a water feature at Millennium Park in December 1999 and invited 3 artists to submit proposals. The Crowns left the...
23. Crown Fountain, tower wall rendering, ca. August 1, 2002 Crown Fountain, tower wall rendering, ca. August 1, 2002 Computer graphics; Structural frames; A detailed plan for a steel grid frame glass brick panel. On the finished fountain, the tower walls consist of steel grids with glass bricks in each opening. This provides the necessary strength without...
24. Crown Fountain, tower wall rendering, ca. August 1, 2002 Crown Fountain, tower wall rendering, ca. August 1, 2002 Computer graphics; Structural frames; A detailed plan for a steel grid frame glass brick panel. On the finished fountain, the tower walls consist of steel grids with glass bricks in each opening. This provides the necessary strength without...
25. Crown Fountain, tower wall rendering, ca. August 1, 2002 Crown Fountain, tower wall rendering, ca. August 1, 2002 Computer graphics; Structural frames; A detailed plan for a compression strap frame glass brick panel. This was one of several wall structures that was proposed and ultimately rejected. On the finished fountain, the towers consist of steel...
26. Crown Fountain, tower wall rendering, ca. August 1, 2002 Crown Fountain, tower wall rendering, ca. August 1, 2002 Computer graphics; Structural frames; A detailed plan for a compression strap frame glass brick panel. This was one of several wall structures that was proposed and ultimately rejected. On the finished fountain, the towers consist of steel...
27. Crown Fountain, architectural model, ca. October 4, 2002 Crown Fountain, architectural model, ca. October 4, 2002 Architectural models; Structural systems; Fountains; A model of one of Crown Fountain’s towers, showing the internal structure. Each tower is 50 feet tall, with a rectangular footprint of 23 feet by 16 feet. Inside each tower is a basic structure with...
28. Crown Fountain, meeting in Chicago, ca. April 10, 2002 Crown Fountain, meeting in Chicago, ca. April 10, 2002 Faces; Architects' offices; Alan Schachtman of U.S. Equities Realty (left) and artist Jaume Plensa view LED test panels at the offices of Krueck + Sexton Architects at 221 West Erie Street in Chicago. U.S. Equities Realty was the...
29. Crown Fountain, water feature tests, June 12, 2002 Crown Fountain, water feature tests, June 12, 2002 Fountains; Testing; Hoses; Water tanks;Industrial facilities; Testing for the "waterfall" feature of the fountain at Crystal Fountains headquarters in Concord, Ontario, Canada. In the finished fountain, water cascades down all sides of each of the towers.
30. Crown Fountain, water feature tests, August 25, 2002 Crown Fountain, water feature tests, August 25, 2002 Fountains; Testing; Hoses; Water tanks;Industrial facilities; Testing the "gargoyle" feature of the fountain at Crystal Fountains headquarters in Concord, Ontario, Canada. The finished fountain is made up of two glass brick towers, facing each other across a reflecting...
31. Crown Fountain, water feature tests, ca. August 27, 2003 Crown Fountain, water feature tests, ca. August 27, 2003 Testing; Industrial facilities; A close up of the specially designed “gargoyle” nozzle used on each of Crown Fountain’s towers. The nozzle is made from cast UV stabilized acrylic, a material chosen for its appearance and its ability...
32. Crown Fountain, glass brick sample, April 30, 2003 Crown Fountain, glass brick sample, April 30, 2003 Glass blocks; A sample of glass brick showing a corner joint. In addition to selecting the clearest glass bricks, the project team worked together to devise how the corner bricks would be constructed, making sure the...
33. Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Glass blocks; Posters; Tables; Paneling; Artist Jaume Plensa (right) views glass brick samples showing different clarity and texture possibilities at the offices of the L.E. Smith Glass Company in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. Each of the finished...
34. Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Crown Fountain, fabricating the glass bricks, May 21, 2003 Glass industry; Industrial facilities; Glassworking; Glassworkers; A glass worker at the L.E. Smith Glass Company in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, the company that made over 22,000 glass bricks for the Crown Fountain. At the height of production L.E. Smith was able to make...
35. Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, January 17, 2003 Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, January 17, 2003 Industrial facilities; Glass blocks; Structural frames; Mock-ups; Lighting; A close up view of an LED panel behind a mock-up of the glass brick wall. Each pixel is made up of five light emitting diodes, or LEDs, two red, two green and one blue, which can be manipulated into almost...
36. Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, January 17, 2003 Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, January 17, 2003 Industrial facilities; Glass blocks; Structural frames; Mock-ups; A behind-the-scenes view of the inside of a mock-up of one of Crown Fountain’s towers showing the backs of the LED screens. The mock-up was erected to test a possible steel support structure for the...
37. Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, May 20, 2003 Crown Fountain, testing in Melbourne, Florida, May 20, 2003 Industrial facilities; Glass blocks; Structural frames; Mock-ups; Lighting; A model showing how the “gargoyle” nozzle would look when installed in the glass brick façade of each tower with the LED panels behind it.
38. Crown Fountain, assembly in Melbourne, Florida, ca. January 29, 2004 Crown Fountain, assembly in Melbourne, Florida, ca. January 29, 2004 Industrial facilities; Structural frames; Glass blocks; Fans (Machinery); Pails; A glass brick panel fabricated and assembled by Circle Redmont Inc., in Melbourne, Florida. The panel is made up of a steel grid with glass bricks in each of the openings. The bricks were adhered to their...
39. Crown Fountain, assembly in Melbourne, Florida, ca. March 24, 2004 Crown Fountain, assembly in Melbourne, Florida, ca. March 24, 2004 Industrial facilities; Structural frames; Glass blocks; Fans (Machinery); Pails; Shelving; Once the glass bricks were made by L.E. Smith in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, they were sent to the offices of Circle Redmont, Inc., to be assembled into steel grids, shown here.

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40. Crown Fountain, LED tile, ca. November 12, 2003 Crown Fountain, LED tile, ca. November 12, 2003 Offices; Boxes; Office workers; Close-up view of an LED tile. In the finished fountain, each tower has a 24 feet-by-49 feet LED screen made up of more than 70 two feet-by-three feet Barco SLite 14 LED video display tiles.
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